Warm nights not hot enough to set records for Syracuse, weather service says

Syracuse, NY -- It’s been uncomfortably warm the past couple of nights in the Syracuse area, but not warm enough to set records, the National Weather Service says.

The record high minimum temperature – the highest low, to speak -- for a June 8 in Syracuse is 71 degrees, set in 1979, said Mike Jurewicz, a National Weather Service forecaster in Binghamton. It dipped to 66 degrees at Syracuse Hancock International Airport at 4 a.m. Wednesday, according to the weather service, knocking June 8, 2011, out of contention for that record.

The record high minimum for a Syracuse June 9 is 75 degrees, set in 2008, Jurewicz said. It was 72 degrees at the airport at 2:54 a.m., so today already is out of the running for the record.

Of course, Syracuse set a record high temperature Wednesday for a June 8 of 97 degrees, three degrees hotter than the previous record set in 2005. If today’s predicted high of 87 holds true, the record high of 95 set June 9, 2008, should remain intact.